The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-04-19
or GENERAL INTEREST.

made.
There are two titles in this coun.
try-the Electoral Count and Sir Plus.
Several European mOnarchies would
like to have the latter.-Pitts6trgh
Chronicle.
When the handsome Mr.. Clover
plays it the ladies fade away from the
room as softly as \ poets dream from
q woOdehOpper's memory and the soul
Of music expires in the wood-box.
"A German statistician has discov-
cred that the average age of European
girls when they marry is greatly I'M
derestimated. 1t is as high as twenty
six years, and that of the men about
twenty-eight.
The valuable violin .whic. a
drunken heel went through on tn,
night of the dance ut the s'widder's"
has been so cleverly repaired by Cash
Macy that it sounds better than ever
Long CreeE (Ore.J Republican.
"A Berrien County man arrived in
Quitman on Friday last with CARLOAD
OF possums. They were large and fat
and showed that they had been well
fed in Berrien. The pOssum trade is
in its infancy. but We shall foster it
with care.-Qvitmas (Ga.l Free Press.
"A Pennsylvania girl who was
whirled eight hundred times around
main shaft and got out of it without
any serious injury, says she felt as if
she was sliding down long hill on
hand-sled, and was in delicious frame
of mind. The toboggan must co.
Detroit Free Press.
One of the most expensive works
architects now have in hand is the new
Congress Hall for Buenos Ayres. This
is TO cost SIC, 900, 900, and to be built in
four years. 1t is to be in the Renais-
sance style, its dimensions being l, 200
feet by 900 feet. The site covers
twenty acres i'm the best part of the
city.
DIR. j. Stuart Marine, of the Glas.
cow Samaritan Hospital for Women,
has recorded several instances in his
practice in which the use of fish, boiled
or fried. as food, by patients, even
when considerably advanced in con.
valeScence, was followed by evil conse-
quenees, and he has begun 10 believe
that, under any circumstances of de-
bility. fish was a very dangerous diet
and forbade its use.-Popsslar Science
AOnthly.
The estimated expenditure for food
of person whose Income is five hun
dred dollars yearly or less, is two hun
dred and fifty dollars in the year, or
seventy-tive cents day for an average
family. Of this thirty cents is spent
for meat, fifteen cents for dairy prod
ucts, nine cents for bread, seven and
half cents for vegetables. seven and q
half cents for sugar, and the remainder
for tea, coffee, rice, salt. etc.-Ameri-
can AgriculturiSt.
Mr.. J. G. Bayles. editor of the Iron
Age, advances the curious theory that
all traps should he omitted in the sewer
system connected with houses. The
trap, he insists. is q little cesspool,
which interferes with the free flow OF
air and water, and so of flush. The
true remedy for sewer gas, he thinks.
is fresh air inlets. If these abound, he
says, there will be no riskful gas, and
''nO trap" will be one of the sanitary
advances of the day.
"A recent writer states that the
senses are not parallel in men and
women. The latter possess to greater
perfection the sense of touch. The
senses of hearing and sight are rela-
lively the same i'm both sexes, but it is
that men have the sense of
taste more delicately developed than
women. the sense of smell was in
the experiments made dOubly as acute |
in men is in women. No reason is as
signed for the distinction.
In 1870 Mary Byrne, a girl of ten
Years, was run over by the New York |
Central Il Hudson River Railroad cars
while crossing an alley in Troy, y. Y, |
and one of her legs was so badly |
rs 10 neceSsitate amputation !
above the knee on two occasions. The
was sued. and she got ver-
lIct of $1,000. This was set aside by
the Court of Appeals. New trials re-
suited, until lately the highest court |
sustained a verdict of 81, 800 in her be- !
half.
A well posted railway man says !
hat the obligatory footing of a loco
motive on the New York, New Haven |
i Hartford railroad, in an ordinary !
lays run, involves n waste of steam
the consumption of 2SO |
pounds of coal to renew. He estimates
he whistling expenses of that particu-
ar railway at $4,000 per year. There
5 a similar waste in the blowing of the